Exchange 2003 Recovery

An EDB (Exchange Database File) created with Exchange Server 2003 is prone to corruption for common reasons like Dirty Shutdown, Anti-virus scanning, hardware issues and more. A corrupted Exchange Server 2003 database can give errors such as:

One can check Exchange 2003 database integrity with Eseutil /mh switch and damaged database header with Eseutil/k switch. For Exchange Server 2003 Recovery, one can either restore from the available backup or use switches like Eseutil /cc, Eseutil /r and/or Eseutil /p (provided you backup the database first).